Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-10-08
sUNFLowER STATE NEWS.

Kansas has seven amateur papers
Allison Breeze: Land buyers are be-
ginning to flock in lately.
MeCuue, Crawford County, is to have
a fine brick school house.
The opening OF a sewer has caused
one of the Oldest wells In Parsons to run
dry.
Marquette expects to have a $4,000
hotel A joint stock company viii be
formed to build It,
A colored minstrel troupe has been
organized at Manhattan, and Will go Oh
the road.
Wichita Democrat: A man Of meRus
nd who will do what he agrees to, will
$4,000 for the legal right to sell
liquor in Wichita for one year.
Holton Signal: There is q constant
demand for houses 50 rent. d, zen
families from neighboring towns want
to move to Holton, but have so far been
unable 70 secure houses.
Cawker Journal: Lilacs ara in bios
som the second time this seasOD. Apple
trees are bearing fruit and new bIoss .rn@.
like the orange trees Of Florida.
Louis DOnmyer, a Saline county man,
who died last week, was the father Of
seventeen children, twelve of whom are
still living.
Hiram Leavie forged deed to a half
section Of land in Miami County and
succeeded in getting a loan OF $4,000 IN
the farm IN Kansas City.
New corn is reported as selling in
Chautauqua county at twenty-five aud
thirty cents a bushel, large deliveries
being made at those prices.
Minnie Critics, a u year-old girl near
Kirwin: was attacked by a vicious dog
and nearly killed, a few days ago. The
dog belonged to her father.
At the Topeka fair there we're forty
bulls rams and bears that bore the nBule
of Governor Click. The ex-governor
saw nsarly every one OF them.
The Ell Dorado Packing company,
with a capital stock OF $4,000 has been
organized and will commence packing
logs for southern shipment q about six
weeks.
Thomas LaIkin, young man resiiing
in Lsaven worth was run over by 3
Missouri Pacific train near the Union
depot in that city, last week, and ~
stantly killed.
The contract for the building of the
Fifth avenue opera house at Arkansas
City has been let. The building is to
cost 100000, and Is to be completed BY
June LIST, 1888.
A German living about 20 miles south
OF Chetopa in the Indian territory start
ed for that place recently to bring his
/ four year old dF'JghteF for medical treat
ment- When aUOut a mile fro 4 town
she was seized with violent choking and
coughing. He whipped his team into
a run but on his arrival at ChetOpa she
had died.
Cattle stealers have been working ia
! Greenwood county. They stole and
shipped $50 head of cattle to Kansas
City and sold them there. They have
not been captured.
Quentin Campbell, the editor Of the
EUgning San, at Leavenwortb, shot his
wife With fatal intent few days ago.
He elaine, that she had been untrue to
him. Sne will recover.
A contract has been let at Arkansas
| City for a five story hotel of $50 rooms.
! 100 feet on Fifth avenue and is on
Ninth street, to be completed June 1,
1888, at cost Of $4,000
Jerre Rich. a stockman, living near
Marquette, took load Of cattle to Kan
sas City and has since been missing
His family, becoming alarmed, have sent
a detective to hunt him up.
Steve Knowlton, who outraged a
Of a.
/ ago, has just been arrested and is now
in the Jewell county jail He came back,
! supposing the deed forgotten.
1t is reported from Kiowa county that
a cat belonging 10 a farmer near Click,
in that county, added to Ler small family
Of three kittens by adopting two young
rabbits and three young eoOns.
W. Il. Walters, OF Hollywood, Ellis
worth county, has been arrested for
forgery and horse stealing. When ar
rested he had with him a young girl
whom he had persuaded to eIope with
him, promising marriage.
The Wichita Eagle announces thst
/ 5000 houses have been built in Wichita
during the spring and summer, and calls
upon the people of that city to build
more to sceOmmOda. tEoss who Will
come to Wichita this fall and winter
A dispute over a 81 debt at Clay
| Center between John Reed, a butcher
and R. j. Mcintyre, a painter, resulted
il an attack by Reed and mis- two sons.
During the fight Elmer Reed struck
/ Mcintyre with brick and broke his
skull.
/ The Topeka Insurance company, which
l was organized a short time since, have a
number Of agents in the field and are doing
| a good business. They have met with sev-
eraI losses which were Immediately adjusted
and paid. The company is composed en-
/ tirely of Kansas men who are well known
and whose names are a voucher as to the re-
/ liability Of the company. Their home Office
! is at 523 Kansas avenue, Topeka.
Dodge City Globe Journal: Within
the past week arrangements have been
perfected for the grading, tieiDg and lay
Ing OF iron on tie Arkansas, Kansas and
Colorado railroad, which is to be built
as a connection OF the Rock Island
at BuekIin, to Dodge City.
A CHASTITY murder was conn tilted at
Leavenworth few nights ago. Henry
Richter, a WeIl-to-do German, was muir
dered by Two negroes, who cut his throat
] from ear to ear. The motive Of the muir